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We have about 50 entries in a weblog. We recently added a new custom field to that weblog and added it into the template.

The new custom field displays on all entry pages apart from one of them, as if by random.

I tried deleting the entry and then publishing a new one and then deleting the cache, but still no luck, for that very same entry even though it’s been re-published.

Running EE 1.6.9 Build:  20100805

Uncommon Knowledge,

What type of custom field is it?

Can you share your weblog tags with us?
Have you got a link to your site?

If you try and hardcode the entry_id of that one entry into your weblog tag does it work?

The custom field type is a textarea with the name “moreinfo”. The site is not online as of yet (to the public anyway) but I can show you the (toned down) template code if that is any help:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="cards" limit="1"}

<h1>{title}</h1>

{embed="embeds/_social"}

{title} is spoken in the following countries: {countries}

{if moreinfo}
    {moreinfo}
{/if}

{if cardpdf}

    <a href="http://{cardpdf}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">{site_url}images/uploads/pdf_button.gif</a>
    <a href="http://{cardpdf}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download PDF of this {title} gluten free card here</a>

{/if}

{cardimage}

{if hirescard}
<a href="http://{hirescard}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to view this card in high resolution.</a>
{/if}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Uncommon Knowledge,

It would be better syntax to write your conditionals this way. Can you create a blank template and only add the following. What happens if you hard code the entry_id in there?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="cards" limit="1"}

<h1>{title}</h1>

{if moreinfo != ""}
    {moreinfo}
{/if}


{/exp:weblog:entries}

Hello John

Thank you for your response. I created a new template and added the above code. I also tried hard-coding the entry_id=“601” into the the new template code and it worked.

However, when I try it in my current template, the custom field still does not display for entry_id 601 (i have changed the ‘if’ statement and hard-coded the entry_id in the live template).

I"m guessing something in my main/live template is stopping the custom field from showing, but why only on one entry instead of all the entries?

Many thanks,
Uncommon Knowledge

Uncommon Knowledge, I don’t know why that’s happening, but simplifying the template and adding back in complexity is the only way to track down why it’s happening.

After bashing my head against the wall, I realised the problem was in our /system/cache/ folder. Whenever I cleared the cache in the EE Utilities menu, it said it had done it successfully, I had always taken it’s word.

Now checking in the /cache/ folder there’s still a heap of stuff in there. Deleted it all, refreshed the entry and Voila!

Thanks for the help guys, this can safely be closed 😉

Glad you were able to figure out what the problem was. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.